Asheville council to consider immigration

5:28 PM,
Oct. 18, 2013

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City Council will take up a resolution that would limit police participation in immigration enforcement and consider plans for a large mixed-use building project in the River Arts District on Tuesday.

The resolution pushed by Councilman Cecil Bothwell says the city "does not actively participate in the enforcement of federal immigration law," will not collect information on people or groups based on their political, religious or social views and will not profile groups.

The building project would be on the former Dave Steel property on Clingman Avenue and Roberts Street. It would ...